Craving CanLit 2021
To celebrate Canadian authors, we’ve put together this list of fiction and graphic novels published between October 2020 and September 2021. This is the timeframe we are accepting submissions for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. If we’ve missed someone, please email us at info [at] scotiabankgillerprize.ca so we can add them.
Please note we do our best to keep this page up-to-date. The most accurate information including publication dates can be found on the publisher’s website.
André Alexis
McClelland & Stewart, an imprint of Penguin Random House
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Ashley Audrain
Viking Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House
JANUARY 5, 2021
Gary Barwin
Penguin Random House Canada
MARCH 9, 2021
Cedar Bowers
McClelland & Stewart an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
JUNE 1, 2021
Kerry Clare
Doubleday Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Candas Jane Dorsey
ECW Press
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Kim Echlin
Hamish Hamilton Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
MARCH 2, 2021
Genki Ferguson
McClelland & Stewart, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
MARCH 2, 2021
Krista Foss
McClelland & Stewart, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
MARCH 2, 2021
Camilla Gibb
Doubleday Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
MARCH 23, 2021
David Goudreault, translated by JC Sutcliffe
Book*hug Press
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Wayne Grady
Doubleday Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
APRIL 27, 2020
Andrée Gratton, translated by Ian Thomas Shaw
Guernica Editions
APRIL 1, 2021
Carrie Jenkins
Strange Light, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
APRIL 13, 2021
Marie-Hélène Larochelle, translated by Michelle Winters
Invisible Publishing
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Mary Lawson
Knopf Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Pasha Malla
Knopf Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
John McFetridge
ECW Press
JUNE 1, 2021
Beth Powning
Knopf Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
MAY 25, 2021
Eden Robinson
Knopf Canada, Penguin Random House Canada
MARCH 2, 2021
Rebecca Silver Slayter
Doubleday Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
APRIL 20, 2021
M.G. Vassanji
Doubleday Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
MAY 11, 2021
Iona Whishaw
Touchwood Editions
APRIL 27, 2021
Jocelyne Saucier, translated by Mullins Rhonda
Coach House Books
JUNE 15, 2021
Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Emily Anglin, Devon Code
Coach House Books
JUNE 1, 2021